BEING LITERATE

This is a cooperative learning activity. Students form a home team and are set a home team problem. They break up into "expert groups" and gain expert knowledge that feeds into the overall problem. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each student's part is essential for the completion and full understanding of the home team problem.

This strategy gives students a structure to record
their understanding of what they have learned.
It also gives teachers the opportunity to identify
aspects of the lesson that need more attention,
as well as areas of student interest.

This is a comprehension strategy that is used
before reading to activate students' prior
knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.

This strategy also stimulates student interest in a
topic and sets a purpose for reading, listening or
watching. They teach students to make predictions,
anticipate and verify predictions. They will
connect new information to prior knowledge.

In this strategy students work together through
group vote to make informed decisions, to
prioritise and reach consensus. It could be used in
a Tutor Class, Year Group or Student Council to
come to a democratic decision.

Dotmocracy gives every student an equal chance
to have their opinion recorded even in the largest
of groups.

Quizzes are an engaging way of activating prior
knowledge and revising content. Kahoot! is a
quiz based classroom response system. It displays
the quiz in a fun and exciting way that is
appealing to students.

It gives teachers the opportunity to ask thought
provoking questions, find out previous knowledge
or revise a topic in a fun way.

This strategy serves several purposes: it elicits prior
knowledge of the text, it sets a purpose for
reading and it helps students monitor their
comprehension.

By being aware of students' interests and prior
knowledge the teacher has the ability to create
projects and assignments that are challenging and
that the students will enjoy. A KWL chart is a tool
that can be used to inform teaching as well as
guide student learning.

This strategy involves students interpreting,
summarising, comparing and contrasting
information using a different form of
representation, generating new information and
knowledge by adapting, designing and
representing information digitally.

Provides all students with an opportunity to
engage in thinking at the evaluation level of
Bloom's taxonomy.

A Ranking Ladder requires students to place items
on rungs of a ladder in order from least to most
important, as a group activity it allows students to
be challenged as to why they rank one item above
or below another.

This strategy encourages students to gather
information relevant to subject or topic in
question. It is particularly relevant to the key skill
managing information and thinking.
The students learn to design quality questions
and subsequently analyse the results in order to
come to valid conclusions.

This strategy allows students to graphically display
the similarities and differences between two
items or themes. It works very well with groups
allowing oral processing of learning. A very
effective strategy for comparing and
contrasting.

This is an online application 'a blank sheet of
paper' that allows students to express their ideas
on a given topic. Padlet allows students to post
content relevant to a topic e.g. images, text,
video, audio.

BEING LITERATE

JIGSAW Strategy more_vert

This is a cooperative learning activity. Students form a home team and are set a home team problem. They break up into "expert groups" and gain expert knowledge that feeds into the overall problem. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each student's part is essential for the completion and full understanding of the home team problem.

3-2-1 more_vert

This strategy gives students a structure to record
their understanding of what they have learned.
It also gives teachers the opportunity to identify
aspects of the lesson that need more attention,
as well as areas of student interest.

Anticipation Exercise more_vert

This is a comprehension strategy that is used
before reading to activate students' prior
knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.

This strategy also stimulates student interest in a
topic and sets a purpose for reading, listening or
watching. They teach students to make predictions,
anticipate and verify predictions. They will
connect new information to prior knowledge.

Diamond 9 more_vert

Dotmocracy more_vert

In this strategy students work together through
group vote to make informed decisions, to
prioritise and reach consensus. It could be used in
a Tutor Class, Year Group or Student Council to
come to a democratic decision.

Dotmocracy gives every student an equal chance
to have their opinion recorded even in the largest
of groups.

Kahoot! more_vert

Quizzes are an engaging way of activating prior
knowledge and revising content. Kahoot! is a
quiz based classroom response system. It displays
the quiz in a fun and exciting way that is
appealing to students.

It gives teachers the opportunity to ask thought
provoking questions, find out previous knowledge
or revise a topic in a fun way.

KWL more_vert

This strategy serves several purposes: it elicits prior
knowledge of the text, it sets a purpose for
reading and it helps students monitor their
comprehension.

By being aware of students' interests and prior
knowledge the teacher has the ability to create
projects and assignments that are challenging and
that the students will enjoy. A KWL chart is a tool
that can be used to inform teaching as well as
guide student learning.

Through the Lens more_vert

This strategy involves students interpreting,
summarising, comparing and contrasting
information using a different form of
representation, generating new information and
knowledge by adapting, designing and
representing information digitally.

Ranking Ladder more_vert

Provides all students with an opportunity to
engage in thinking at the evaluation level of
Bloom's taxonomy.

A Ranking Ladder requires students to place items
on rungs of a ladder in order from least to most
important, as a group activity it allows students to
be challenged as to why they rank one item above
or below another.

Survey more_vert

This strategy encourages students to gather
information relevant to subject or topic in
question. It is particularly relevant to the key skill
managing information and thinking.
The students learn to design quality questions
and subsequently analyse the results in order to
come to valid conclusions.

Venn Diagram more_vert

This strategy allows students to graphically display
the similarities and differences between two
items or themes. It works very well with groups
allowing oral processing of learning. A very
effective strategy for comparing and
contrasting.

Padlet more_vert

This is an online application 'a blank sheet of
paper' that allows students to express their ideas
on a given topic. Padlet allows students to post
content relevant to a topic e.g. images, text,
video, audio.